History Quote by R. Scott Bakker Download Open image ““That hope is little more than the premonition of regret. This is the first lesson of history.”” — R. Scott Bakker ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare History Hope Regret
“Too often we look back on our lives with regret. What is done, is done. We learned lessons from those mistakes. Every day is… — Kitt Weagant Copy Share Image
“Time has taught me not to lose hope, yet not to trust too much in hope either. Hope is cruel, and has no conscience.” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“Nothing is more regrettable than missing a great opportunity leading to success and prosperity.” — Mouloud Benzadi Copy Share Image
“Regret is a terrible thing to carry. Memories can be cherished, regret will destroy you.” — Natalie Kiest Copy Share Image
“Regret is the strongest anchor that latches on to the ground, and you carry it within you, it is a feeling quite unlike others… — Saim .A. Cheeda Copy Share Image
“In the long-run, regrets consist less of bad choices and more of choices not made at all. Little do we realize, those were choices… — Ryan Lilly Copy Share Image
“regret is just misplaced nostalgia. That you can look back fondly or even wistfully on pieces of your life and hound yourself with endless… — Allison Winn Scotch Copy Share Image
“No matter what horrible circumstances we may face in our lives, we must never lose hope, for losing hope is the beginning of our… — Consolee Nishimwe Copy Share Image
“Regret is the sound of the ghosts of our own making. I will live with mine until I die.” — T.A. Webb Copy Share Image
“Regret implies that one wasn't consciously present during a key moment in their life.” — Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Ph.D, MBA Copy Share Image
“Don't regret what might have been. Accept what is and rejoice in what is yet to be.” — MaryAnn Koopmann Copy Share Image
Everyone thinks they've won the Magical Belief Lottery. Everyone thinks they more or less have a handle on things, that they, as opposed to… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
I tell you, guilt dwells nowhere but in the eyes of the accuser. This men know even as they deny it, which is why… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
“When a man possesses the innocence of a child, we call him a fool. When a child possesses the cunning of a man, we… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
“I am a warrior of ages, Anasurimbor ... ages. I have dipped my nimil in a thousand hearts. I have ridden both against and… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
“The vulgar think the God by analogy to man and so worship Him in the form of the Gods. The learned think the God… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
There was such a difference, he thought, between the beauty that illuminated, and the beauty that was illuminated. — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
Complexity begets ambiguity, which yields in all ways to prejudice and avarice. Complication does not so much defeat Men as arm them with fancy. — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
“Sorweel: „Then how can we hope to resist him?“ Harweel: „With our swords and our shields. And when those fail us, with spit and… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
“He struck his own fire, listened to the night wind roar through the trees. Sometimes, when he could see it, he stared at the… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
“For all things there is a toll. We pay in breaths, and our purse is soon empty.” — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
I wanted a literate, socially intricate, and cosmopolitan world - something I could have fun destroying. — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Things live and die, and then someone processes them into edible portions. This is a complete telling of the story, 'Food.' The basic plot… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
History is a certain way, but you just change the point of view a little bit, and you discover a whole new side of… — Allison Schroeder Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image